Nature of transaction - sale and purchase of land or merely ...

Petitioners Not Liable for Money Laundering u/s 3 of PMLA in Land Sale Case, Only Witnesses.

May 23, 2022

Case Laws     Money Laundering     HC

Nature of transaction - sale and purchase of land or merely investment in the property - there is nothing on record to show that the petitioners were intentionally projecting or claiming any “proceeds of crime” as untainted one. Therefore, in the absence of the same, merely because in the scheduled offence, the CBI investigation suggest that the other accused who had applied for obtaining licence from the department of the State of Haryana in conspiracy with the State functionaries, wherein the petitioners are cited only as witnesses, in the absence of any material, the offence of money laundering under Section 3 of the PMLA is not attracted from the bare perusal of the complaint. - HC

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